"Unusual Suspects"

 "I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead." (Ecclesiastes 4:15 KJV)

  "There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. "Rabbi, he said, "we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you." Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God." "What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?" Jesus replied, "I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don't be surprised when I say, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit." "How are these things possible?" Nicodemus asked." (John 3:1-9 NLT)

 Take about going out on a limb! So, going back to Eve, called by her husband, Adam, who named her that after they were shown, by God, that her seed would come and crush the serpent's head; Eve, meaning, "Mother of all Living." Which, while Solomon writes, "all the living which walk under the sun," it pretty much represents those that are living, as in, born again! 

 Just in case you might have forgotten, or may not have been told, but before you were born again, you were spiritually dead! Oh, your soul was still very much alive, so that spirit was living; but you were cut off from God's Spirit, which was not living in you, because Adam became dead of the Spirit, we have been born the first time, dead of the Spirit. Therefore, we must be born again, to be really living! 

 I can't imagine what exactly he envisioned, but, even as wise as Solomon was, I can only imagine he was pretty much baffled as much as Nicodemus was, Jesus having shown him about what it means to be born of the Spirit. To be perfectly clear, none of us that have been born again can know what it is like, until we actually become "the second child." 

 As complicated as it might seem, it really isn't all that hard to see it all come together! You might be asking, what does, "that shall stand up in his stead," have to do with anything? how can anyone stand up and represent Jesus Christ? Oh, but we do! Where do you think the name, Christians, came from? 

 Just so you know, I am not trying to make this into some sort of new revelation or discovery; my main focus is to represent Christ in and through as much of the Scriptures as He shows up in; only because He has said very plainly, 'The Scriptures speak of Him.' Besides, He is the Living Word...

"See my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted. But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man. And he will startle many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not heard about." (Isaiah 52:13-15 NLT)